Taking over a theatre building for the first time can come as a shock for artistic directors and they soon learn that
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:00AM[SHARE]Old Vic, BristolScaramouche Jones, born at midnight on December 31 1899, a strange, pale, white-skinned "oyster" who popped out of his Gypsy prostitute mother in a fishmongers in Trinidad. A…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:48PM[SHARE]"Please don't feel ashamed of having a day job to support your dream of working in the arts. A lot of people
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Mind the Gap has become a world leader in creating work with, and not just for, learning-disabled actors and theatremakers. Lyn Gardner
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:32PM[SHARE]Competition to find the next hot emerging playwright can be fierce among theatre publishers hoping for a long and rewarding relationship. But
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:30AM[SHARE]Some theatre is like a haunting. It is a prickle down the spine, a sense that you are watching something uncanny, something
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Garrick, LondonNot exactly your usual West End fare (after the bloody splatterfest, you might be feeling a little too queasy to face dinner à deux), Martin McDonagh's play is a hugely enj…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:32AM[SHARE]Money makes all the difference. Back in the 1990s, when I was travelling the country reviewing regional theatre, the evidence of years
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Curve, LeicesterSue Townsend's tormented teenage hero makes a jaunty appearance in this smart, low-key musical adaptationIt is more than 30 years since Sue Townsend created Adrian Mole, the …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:48AM[SHARE]News that creative arts graduates earn 15% less than the average university leaver five years after graduation " and so may expect
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]She wrote Mamma Mia! Now she's back " with another story about a wedding. Lyn Gardner meets the down-to-earth Catherine JohnsonCatherine Johnson is downing an energy drink that promises to p…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:04PM[SHARE]Last week I was invited to speak on a panel about space and place at the International Theatre Engineering and Architecture Conference
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]As theatre company Quarantine hands over the stage to ordinary people, joint artistic director Richard Gregory tells Lyn Gardner how deaf performers,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:00PM[SHARE]It would have been nice, of course, to see another woman appointed to head up a major theatre. But never mind, it's
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:46AM[SHARE]I spent part of last week at the Edinburgh International Children's Festival. It's one of an increasing number of children's arts and
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Curve, LeicesterIt's the early 1990s, the Northern ÂIreland peace process is taking its faltering first steps, and INLA man Mad Padraic is hard at work pulling out the toenails of ÂBel…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06PM[SHARE]Vaudeville, LondonIt's hard not to warm to the sweet silliness of Ian Ashpitel and Jonty Stephens's tribute to Morecambe and Wise"Where would you be without me?" asks Eric Morecambe. "Be a c…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:18AM[SHARE]Southwark Playhouse, LondonThe YouTube star plays a girl trying to escape a failing resort in Rob Drummer's ill-pitched revival of Judy Upton's playOne wag has worked out that if every follo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:54AM[SHARE]Peter Hall was once at a party where a woman collared him and said: "What would poor Samuel Beckett's career have been
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]From Zama to Tacita Dean, here's our pick of the best films, concerts, exhibitions, theatre and dance over the next seven days Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:24AM[SHARE]Attenborough Centre, BrightonInviting guest performers of all ages to serve as art objects, Gob Squad's show is a meditation on beauty and decay Beauty, creativity and decay are neatly entwi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:36AM[SHARE]As her 1986 drama Leave Taking is revived at the Bush, the playwright talks about the pain of being neglected, the barriers faced by writers of colour " and her new play about London'I am a …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:42PM[SHARE]Home, Manchester Scottee's show is an act of 'fat rebellion' with a cast who share their stories and consider their identities through dance A large bearded man is dancing centre stage. Sudd…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:18AM[SHARE]Hope Mill, ManchesterThis verbatim piece about Martyn Hett, one of the victims of the Manchester Arena bombing, is a joyous meditation on friendshipVictoria Melody once described funerals as…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:24AM[SHARE]Every night that I am at the theatre, I marvel at the talent on display. And I often muse why one particular
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Norfolk and Norwich festivalThe breakdancing Barely Methodical Troupe prove truly inventive as they transform each other into human marionettesEveryone gets tied up in knots at times. Or wan…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:04AM[SHARE]Barbican, LondonThis two-hander draws the audience right into the action in a surreal yet moving look at mortalityWe all know we will die. But we bury our heads in the sand. Lois Weaver and …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:24PM[SHARE]Soho theatre, London Open Clasp's hard-hitting and sophisticated production shines a light on all-too invisible domestic abuseYou might meet James anywhere. In a bar, like Suzy (Christina Be…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:54AM[SHARE]"Dear William. You are so lucky to be dead." That was just one of the hundred or so comments underneath my Guardian
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Minerva, ChichesterThe stage becomes a memorial as two families a continent apart confront unimaginable loss in this vivid revival of debbie tucker green's prescient works'The worst is not /…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:54AM[SHARE]Royal Exchange Studio, ManchesterThis brilliantly witty show asks who the classics are for " and what Chekhov's play means for young women todayA woman in a wedding-cake dress twirls, a larg…
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